Though NASA expected their complicated machines would ... using the Lunar Module as a lifeboat of sorts. By that time, Apollo 20 had already been cancelled for budgetary reasons.

Those Apollo-era layoffs at NASA occurred “when we were winding down a moon program,” Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier told CNN. “But we’re actively spinning one up ...

Following is the transcript of the video. Narrator: NASA has released photos, videos, and audio recordings of its Apollo missions. Audio clip: We copy you down, Eagle. Narrator: So there's little ...

By the end of Nixon's administration in 1974, NASA's budget had plummeted from 4% of the federal budget to less than 1%. Fully-funded Apollo missions 18 and 19 were abandoned along with Apollo 20.

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...